Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-22
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Valley county voters have authorized m in.
vestigation OF the county records.
The board Of education OF Hastings hal
adopted plans for a $4,000 school.
Covert & Hsgeman, grocers OF Norfolk,
have assigned for the benefit OF creditors.
james Proxies, of Schuyler, committed sui.
eide on Tuesday on account Of domestic
trouble.
The energetic business men OF Crete have
subscribed $4,000 toward establishing s
creamery.
On Thursday Becker's photograph gallery
at Neigh and a small building adjoining were
burned.
The city council of Hastings Is groplng
through the dark passage Of a street railway
charter.
The masonic fraternity, OF Fremont, has In
vested IN land on which TO build a commodi-
Gus lodge.
Crete il harvesting vast quantities Of ice
rounding towns.
Pronger & Clarey's store In Crete wa. rail.
ed by burglars Thursday night and 500 worth
Of goods taken.
The gross receips of the Fremont post
office for the third and fourth quarters Of the
year were S6,362.
Material for the division shops Of the Elk
horn Valley road at Norfolk is being unload.
ed at that point.
The Broker Bow Times, Democratic, il a
late addition to journalism. George W. Ire.
fren IS the chief.
Fremont is perfecting plans TO have several
streets paved next summer, provided thel gls-
lature grauts authority.
The town council OF Tecumseh has closed
up three saloons, causing q loss to the treas
ury Of -, 100 a year.
VIII Taylor, q prescription clerk In Liberty,
shot a hole through his head while shifting
his gun to his hip pocket.
A Central City pap r modestly conf"sses
that Ofnaha's improvements Tor 1886 slight
ly gets away with Central CITY,
James Nelson, OF Batsors, Ord county, was
thrown from his horse on the lonely prairie
last week and frozen to death.
A proposition has been submitted to the
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aid of the Union Pacific extension.
Schuyler sent two youthful tsughs to the
reform school last Saturday. They were
charged with stealing lumber and coal.
A burglar was caught In the set Of loading
himself with ''weeplns" In a gun store in
Wahoo, and rendered the freedom OF the
jail.
Tho no ard Of traAA ~ I nnpn tnA VUfl iss,A A
Boom pamphlet" showing how the tow
holds a front pew as a progressive ommun
ity.
The Roa.r.'e Sewer Pipe company has dis.
covered that The banks OF clay adjoining the
works is superior stuff for the manufacture OF
stoucware.
There is at resent in course OF erection al
O'Connor, Greedy county, an acadesy fol
young ladies to be placed In charge Of the
Sisters Of Mercy.
Residents of Broken Bow and Anselmo
threaten to run a hack line in opposition &c
the caboose and cattle train accommodations
afforded by the railroad.
Weeping Waters business record for the
past year shows the shipment Of ,34S cars OF
stock, grain, produce and merchandise. The
| receipts were 400 car loads.
The experts examination Of the books OF
Otoe shows that the dcfslcation OF Duke
Simpson amounted to SIC, 527 80.
Several townships in Nuckolls county will
decide next Friday the question Of granting
aid for the extension OF the Kansas Midland
road, q branch Of the Santa 70 system.
he admirers OF Buffalo BIZ In NoPlatte Ttl1
and vicinity are negotiating for a special car
to take IA party Of forty 10 NV York to wit
ness the Wild west show In Madison garlen.
Mr.. John Fitzgerald, Lincoln, president Of
the Irish National league Of America, has for
warded to the fund now being raised in Wash
ington for Mrs. Logan, the sun Of 81 900 as
this personal gi I.
The public land office at North Platte re
ceived In cash sos 203.49 during the last quar-
ter of the year. A little over 1900 acres OF
land were disposed OF, mostly III Custer and
Cheyenne counties.
The Beatrice Canning company put W
773, 100 cans OF goods last year aud distrlbut
ed them in five states and territories. Tn,
t'hhPaut o.NNA All osh fofs'lp, VI HlN Slv,
COZ were paid for lroducts to farmers and
5000 fer help, The capacity oi the plan
for This year viii he %, coo cans a day.
The Paptllion Times says: "a party "a
surveyors are at work setting another line ol
stakes through sarpy county. The route /.
from South Omaha to Gilmore, and thence IL
a southwesterly direction to Cedar Creek, il
Cass county. A railroad on this line is al
most certain to be built next season"
A Nebraska City bachelor declares that the
girls down there are so anxious to get married
that n man $50 homely thu, the rejection OF
his face will dent a new miik pam can get 8
doz n offers in a day without asking. And
yet that wrinkied crust Of uselessness hat
wadtd through fifty years, blissfutly uncou
scious Of the joys OF home and children. Tn,
girls should stab him TO death with h~airpin-
John Barinthe left North Platte last Frida,
TO walk To bis homestead, eighteen miles dis
tant, In the teeth Of a cutting norther. HI
was advised not to start, but, disregardins
the warning, be left that city at IL o'clock
and must have wandered Ia the storm all day
and all night + iday. Becoming cold and be
yildered, he took of bis scarf, folded 1t for
pillow, and laid down to die. His body wa,
found Sunday about three miles from hi'